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811.
by hugh 18y ago
What does "progressive" mean in this context?
812.
by hugh 18y ago
I second this recommendation of Melbourne (and coming from a Sydney native like me, that really means something). But I'm not sure if an Australian visa is any easier to get than a US one.
813.
by hugh 18y ago
I disagree. Spam has a low success rate, so it's only extremely profitable when the cost per advertisement is zero. If you have a service where it costs _any_ money to post then spammers will go find somewhere else. I think it could work we
814.
by hugh 18y ago
Add me to the "never uses switch statements" list. I've never seen the point in learning the syntax in any of the languages I know, since a bunch of else ifs (or elseifs, or elsifs, or elifs, depending on the language) does the same thing.
815.
by hugh 18y ago
Ideal from the point of view of the entrepreneur, perhaps, but why is this ideal from the point of view of the investor?
816.
by hugh 18y ago
Ahh, well in that case you've got all sorts of new problems. If it's structured so that the fund owns the share and the 100 people own the fund then you have the problem that there's all sorts of regulations saying that only "accredited inv
817.
by hugh 18y ago
As far as I know there's no reason why it wouldn't work, as long as you can find a bunch of rich people and/or pension funds willing to give you lots of money. There are presumably legal issues involved with setting it up as a proper ventur
818.
by hugh 18y ago
Do you think JFK had any idea if the technology would be ready when he declared the goal of a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s? Yes. Do you think he got up and made that pronouncement without at least asking, say, Wernher von B
819.
by hugh 18y ago
Especially front wheel drive. Yeech!
820.
by hugh 18y ago
Well okay, I'm not sure whether having a working prototype actually makes it officially not-vaporware, but until there's something I can actually buy I remain skeptical about the range and price.
821.
by hugh 18y ago
Sure, but Joe VC's venture funds usually have a ten-year lifetime, so year-to-year fluctuations in the skittishness of investors shouldn't be that big a problem. Your average VC is still working to invest a big pile of money he raised years
822.
by hugh 18y ago
Places I've lived: Sydney: You should spend more money on real estate. Melbourne: You should spend more money on clothes. London: You should have been here 150 years ago. Davis, CA: You should leave Davis, CA.
823.
by hugh 18y ago
I've never been to the Science Museum in Oakland, but New York has some pretty good science museums. And I can't really say that Science and Oakland go together all that way in my mind either.
824.
by hugh 18y ago
Imagine some black bum you drive by, imagine how he sees cambridge. For him its not a place of ideas. There is no push towards reading. I'm not sure why you felt the need to bring the hypothetical bum's race into it, but I disagree. A bum
825.
by hugh 18y ago
And I don't like country music. But if I were to sit around hoping that country music ceased to exist and that all the people who currently enjoy country music would be forced to no longer listen to it, that would make me a dick.
826.
by hugh 18y ago
I don't think that sounds like "ambition" at all.
827.
by hugh 18y ago
Somewhere in between the raving Al Gores of the world and the equally raving "No, global warming is totally impossible!" folks is a sparsely-populated region of sensible opinion. It seems like Freeman Dyson is somewhere in this region, but
828.
by hugh 18y ago
Y'know, I cycle to work every day too, but that doesn't mean I want to be a dick to everybody who doesn't.
829.
by hugh 18y ago
Basically we'd almost all starve to death. Transporting food would become uneconomical. Hell, harvesting food would become uneconomical. The trickle of food which got into urban areas would sell for insanely high prices. The rich would stil
830.
by hugh 18y ago
Uh, why?
831.
by hugh 18y ago
The Aptera, eh? I hadn't heard of it before, but I looked at their website and they have a "Reserve Now" button combined with a FAQ which says "We are currently in the process of setting up our production facility". I think that moves it ou
832.
by hugh 18y ago
Another big problem: hypothetical $20,000 electric car with acceptable range doesn't exist yet. The closest thing we have is the Tesla, which costs $100K, carries two people, and... well, still doesn't exist yet. It's no good saying that th
833.
by hugh 18y ago
Does he ever claim to be humble? He only claims to be sensible -- owning a house is a waste of time and effort when you're rich enough to stay in a different hotel suite every week.
834.
by hugh 18y ago
Depends. Are you in the real estate business or the luxury hotel business?
835.
by hugh 18y ago
I had to read this several times to figure out what heroin had to do with it.
836.
by hugh 18y ago
For example?
837.
by hugh 18y ago
Secrets for making your advice sound more interesting: 1. Put it in the form of bullet points 2. Call it "secret"
838.
by hugh 18y ago
Shrug. We can't be sarcastic about useless-looking articles any more?
839.
by hugh 18y ago
Why, it tells us all sorts of important things, like that the author does consulting work, but doesn't like it, but apparently it pays money, so that's okay! It also provides some handy bullet-point tips on successful consulting as copied f
840.
by hugh 18y ago
hen they’re making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don’t see any of it. I don’t blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games. I wonder i

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